Hardware Startup Finland ry is a non-profit organisation that brings together hardware entrepreneurs and HW-oriented people in Finland. Our most important events are meetups, during which people get to know each other, share ideas, get feedback and help and hear talks from international speakers. We want to build a thriving hardware community and support people with their wild dreams of building physical products. Let's make Finland the HW-hub of Northern Europe together!

Sapera is an all-in-one ERP platform for retailers, retail chains and service businesses, developed by Cloud Retail Systems A/S in Vejle. We’re an established software company with a product used every day in stores across Denmark, by customers like Kids Coolshop, Bang & Olufsen and Hvidt & Frit. The problem we solve is one most retailers know too well: the till runs on one system, the accounts on another, the webshop doesn’t talk to the stock system, and the workshop keeps track on paper or in spreadsheets. Every system has its own version of the truth, staff spend time moving data around instead of serving customers, and when something breaks there are four different suppliers to call. The big enterprise ERP systems can fix this, but they’re expensive, heavy to implement and built for companies far bigger than a local bike shop or a chain of machinery dealers. Sapera brings POS, accounting, inventory, order management, webshop, workshop, time registration and service into one system. Everything updates in real time, so the whole business works from the same data, and there’s one place to call for help. Sapera is an approved bookkeeping system by the Danish Business Authority, and we’re recommended by the trade associations for both bicycle dealers and the forest, garden and park industry.

APIZ is a Danish legal intelligence platform built to strengthen the rule of law by making legal information more accessible, transparent and useful. Today, only approximately 0.5% of judicial and administrative decisions become publicly accessible case law. This severely limits transparency, makes legal research unnecessarily difficult and creates unequal access to knowledge about how the law is applied in practice. Access to the law should not be controlled by a small number of commercial gatekeepers, and no private actor should hold a de facto monopoly over essential legal information. Our ambition is to build a more open and comprehensive legal infrastructure for lawyers, legal professionals, businesses and the public. APIZ brings together legislation, consolidated acts, executive orders, administrative guidance, circulars, judgments, decisions and preparatory works in one connected platform. Behind the product is an advanced technical system that enriches legal texts with structure, version history, citations, relationships, metadata and source provenance. This makes it possible to connect legislation with relevant case law, preparatory works, amendments and cross-references while preserving the link to the authoritative source. APIZ uses algorithms and specialised scoring models to evaluate relevance, legal authority, temporal validity and the relationship between sources. These systems are designed to improve search precision and support sound legal methodology—not to replace professional legal judgment. Users can search across legal sources, explore the development of legislation, identify related materials and ask legal questions in natural language. Answers must be precise, source-based and supported by clear citations, allowing the user to inspect the underlying legal authority. Our goal is simple: to reduce the distance between a legal question and a verifiable answer, broaden access to case law and contribute to a more transparent and effective justice system.

Hermodex builds BikeOffice, the operating system for independent bike shops and workshops. The Nordic bike retail market is full of skilled, independent shops that run on paper, spreadsheets and a dozen disconnected supplier portals. Finding the right spare part means logging into one distributor after another, e-bike error codes and service manuals are scattered across PDFs, and workshop staff spend hours on admin instead of fixing bikes. BikeOffice brings it all into one place: product search across all major suppliers at once with live stock levels, AI-powered derailleur hanger identification from a photo (300+ models), e-bike manuals and error codes for Bosch, Yamaha, Bafang and Ananda, workshop and repair management, point of sale, pricing, automated Blocket listings synced with stock, price tag generation and customer messaging. We are built from inside the industry. Hermodex was founded by people who run a bike shop and workshop themselves, and every tool is tested daily in a live store before it reaches customers. Today BikeOffice is used by paying bike retailers in Sweden, and our goal is to become the default platform for independent bike shops across the Nordics and Europe.

DSlexiAI is a Danish EdTech startup developing a desktop learning platform designed to help students get more value from teaching while spending less time manually taking notes. During lessons, the teacher’s speech can be transcribed in real time and made available to students who have access to the relevant class or subject. Students can follow the live transcription in a small desktop window and use selected sentences directly in their notes in tools such as OneNote and Word. The problem we are addressing is that many students spend a large part of lessons trying to keep up with note-taking instead of focusing on understanding what is being taught. This can be especially challenging for students who read or write more slowly, but the issue affects a much broader group of students as well. Our goal is to make teaching more accessible and help students focus more on listening, understanding and participating. Rather than replacing the student’s own notes, DSlexiAI is designed to support the note-taking process and create a structured digital record of teaching that students can return to afterwards. The product has already been tested in educational settings, including at Herningsholm and Aarhus University, and has been trialled across several classes and one study programme. We are now working on bringing the platform to more schools and educational institutions in Denmark.

Vision: Automated industrial trade Today it takes far too long for industry to find and buy new technology. It’s manual and it runs on personal networks. Dodigate makes it automatic. You describe what you need, we match it to the right technology, and everything from there, intro, pilot, deal, integration happens in one place. The goal is that adopting new industrial tech should be as fast as any digital transaction. Background: Nordic manufacturers know they need to automate, instrument, and optimize, but finding the right provider of technology is slow and risky. They lack the time to scan a fragmented supplier landscape, the technical depth to separate real capability from a good pitch, and a low-cost way to test a solution before committing budget. On the other side, strong early-stage tech companies struggle to reach industrial buyers, understand plant realities, and land the reference customers that unlock their next stage of growth. The two sides rarely meet on terms that work for either of them. DODi closes that gap with curated, structured matchmaking rather than an open directory. Product: The result is a platform that makes industrial modernization approachable. Manufacturers get a trusted, low-risk way to discover and test new technology without the search cost or the guesswork. Emerging tech companies get warm, qualified access to serious industrial buyers and the reference customers they need to grow. DODi sits in the middle as the layer of trust, curation, and industrial judgment that turns a promising match into a working deployment.

Vi bygger fremtidens digitale infrastruktur til restauranter, takeaway, detailhandel, skoler og specialiserede B2B-virksomheder. Vores software er egenudviklet og allerede i daglig drift. Nu bruger vi vores gennemprøvede tekniske platform til at teste og skalere flere koncepter inden for online bestilling, takeaway, POS, betaling, levering og branchespecifik e-handel. Vi er ikke længere på idéstadiet. Vores løsninger håndterer allerede betydelig omsætning for vores kunder: • Takeawayplatformen behandler bestillinger for mere end 12 mio. kr. årligt • To skoler benytter vores løsning til administration og bestilling af skolemad • Fire specialudviklede B2B-løsninger håndterer samlet omkring 10 mio. kr. i årlig omsætning • Vores software anvendes hver dag af restauranter og andre virksomheder med reelle kunder, betalinger og driftskritiske arbejdsgange Vi hjælper virksomheder med at eje deres egen digitale forretning. I stedet for at være afhængige af markedspladser med høje kommissioner får de deres egen bestillingsplatform, kundedata, betalingsflow og direkte relation til kunderne. Vores samlede platform omfatter blandt andet online takeaway, POS, køkkendisplays, betaling, bordbestilling, levering, rapportering, fakturering og integrationer til økonomi- og betalingstjenester. Den samme tekniske kerne kan tilpasses forskellige brancher og forretningsmodeller, hvilket giver os mulighed for at udvikle og lancere nye koncepter hurtigt. Næste skridt er international skalering. Vi er i gang med at udvikle en international takeawayløsning, som skal kunne bruges af restauranter på tværs af Europa. Platformen er bygget med fokus på multi-tenant-drift, automatiseret onboarding, lokale betalingsmetoder, flere sprog og mulighed for at håndtere mange tusinde virksomheder. Vi er samtidig i gang med at gøre vores POS-løsning klar til SAF-T-kravene i flere europæiske lande. Målet er at tilbyde en samlet løsning, hvor restauranten kan håndtere både online bestillinger, fysisk salg, betaling, køkken og lovpligtig rapportering i ét system. Cloudflare har valgt at støtte vores internationale udvikling med infrastrukturkreditter til de kommende år. Det giver os adgang til en global teknisk platform og mulighed for at udvikle og teste vores internationale løsning uden at gå på kompromis med hastighed, sikkerhed eller skalerbarhed. Vores ambition er at bygge en europæisk restaurantteknologisk platform, som gør avanceret software tilgængelig for både den enkelte lokale restaurant og større kæder – uden høje kommissioner, lange bindingsperioder eller tab af ejerskab over kunder og data. Vi tror på, at restauranten skal tjene mest på den mad, restauranten selv producerer. Vi søger mennesker og samarbejdspartnere, der vil være med til at skalere en allerede fungerende platform internationalt. Det kan være inden for softwareudvikling, salg, partnerskaber, betaling, compliance eller ekspansion til nye markeder. Vi har teknologien, de første dokumenterede koncepter og kunder i daglig drift. Nu skal vi finde ud af, hvor stort det kan blive.

Momentum Spaces is a small, exclusive coworking community for entrepreneurs, located right on Marselisborg Marina in Aarhus, Denmark – with sea views from the office and boats, cafés and restaurants as the nearest neighbours. THE SPACE We keep it deliberately small. Six fixed desks in a bright, open office – no hot-desking, no rotating crowd, just a permanent circle of people who know each other. Every member gets a height-adjustable desk with generous space around it, plus: - Sea views over Marselisborg Marina - 24/7 access – work when it suits you - Meeting room and lounge (members only) - Shared kitchen with fridge and dishwasher - Dedicated 1,000/1,000 Mbit fiber internet - Free parking right at the door - A few minutes from central Aarhus THE COMMUNITY The office is only half of what Momentum is. Our members are entrepreneurs – primarily under 35 – who each run their own business and use one another for honest sparring across industries: pricing, product, hiring, sales, and all the questions you otherwise sit with alone. It is a curated community that genuinely cheers for each other's success. And because great workdays are not only about work, we regularly get together outside the office – sauna sessions, padel matches and afterwork gatherings are a fixed part of the rhythm. WHO IT'S FOR Momentum is for people who run their own company – SaaS, e-commerce, creative businesses or something entirely different – and who miss having ambitious people around them in the everyday. If your workday gets better with energy, honest feedback and someone to celebrate the wins with, you will feel at home here. THE LOCATION Marselisborg Marina is one of the most inspiring settings in Aarhus: water and boat life outside the windows, harbour cafés and restaurants next door, and the calm of the waterfront – while still only minutes from the city centre. HOW TO JOIN Momentum is curated on purpose. We have a limited number of fixed desks, and new members join after an informal chat – what matters most is that you fit into the community and that we can help each other move forward. If you are building something ambitious and want colleagues who cheer for your success, come by for a visit. Book a visit: kontakt@momentumspaces.dk Website: https://momentumspaces.dk Instagram: @momentum.spaces

The healthcare industry is rapidly evolving to meet the growing demand for accessible, affordable, and efficient medical care. Medical devices have become an essential part of modern healthcare by enabling early disease detection, accurate diagnosis, continuous patient monitoring, and timely clinical decision-making. As global populations grow, chronic diseases increase, and healthcare systems face mounting pressure from shortages of medical professionals, innovative medical technologies are becoming critical to delivering quality care. Medical technology startups are playing a key role in this transformation by developing next-generation solutions that combine advanced software, portable hardware, and digital health technologies. Our company is a Copenhagen-based startup focused on developing innovative Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostic technologies. Our mission is to create intelligent, portable, and user-friendly medical devices that enable faster diagnosis and support decentralized healthcare delivery. The company has already developed a medical device that is classified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), registered in EUDAMED and with Danish Medical Agency, demonstrating our expertise in creating clinically relevant software solutions that comply with modern medical device regulations. Building on this foundation, we are now developing our own portable processing device designed specifically for PoC applications. The device integrates powerful processing capabilities with advanced medical software to perform diagnostic analysis directly at the point of care, reducing dependence on centralized laboratory infrastructure. A key strength of our technology is its modular platform architecture. Rather than developing standalone devices for individual applications, we are building a scalable processing platform that supports multiple diagnostic modules. Our first product will introduce the core portable device with its initial diagnostic capability. Future medical applications and diagnostic modules can then be added through hardware and software upgrades, allowing healthcare providers to expand functionality without replacing the entire system. This approach reduces costs, extends product life, and provides a flexible solution that evolves with clinical needs. The demand for PoC diagnostics continues to grow as healthcare systems worldwide face significant shortages of physicians, nurses, and laboratory personnel. Delays in diagnostic testing can increase patient waiting times, prolong treatment decisions, and place additional pressure on hospitals and laboratories. PoC devices address these challenges by enabling rapid testing and analysis close to the patient, whether in hospitals, clinics, emergency settings, pharmacies, home healthcare, or remote locations. Faster diagnosis leads to earlier treatment, improved workflow efficiency, and better patient outcomes while reducing the burden on centralized healthcare facilities. Our portable processing platform supports this shift toward decentralized healthcare by providing reliable, easy-to-use diagnostic technology that delivers rapid clinical information wherever it is needed. The modular design ensures long-term adaptability, enabling future diagnostic capabilities to be integrated into the same platform as healthcare requirements continue to evolve. As a medical device startup operating from Copenhagen, we are committed to advancing digital health through innovation, engineering excellence, and regulatory compliance. Our long-term vision is to establish a comprehensive modular PoC platform that supports multiple medical applications and contributes to a more accessible, efficient, and patient-centered system.

AnankeLabs is developing KAIROS Substrate, a real-time deterministic safety engine, to help organizations operating AI, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems solve structural exposure to novel, zero-day threats with a proactive physics engine that mathematically calculates exact breaking points before execution. We are tackling the fundamental failure of reactive, probabilistic defenses. Today, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics rely on known historical data—like threat signatures or mapped environments—to predict safety. This creates a permanent, widespread synchronization lag across modern infrastructure, leaving systems structurally exposed to novel, zero-day catastrophes and unpredictable "distribution shifts." This problem deeply affects operators across multiple high-stakes domains: AI Safety: Operators rely on post-generation statistical classifiers, forcing them to anticipate every adversarial path. This leaves systems highly exposed between vulnerability discovery and classifier updates. Cybersecurity: Current defenses depend on pattern-matching that requires a known signature. This creates a dangerous reality where defenders are forced to absorb the initial zero-day breach just to extract the signature needed to stop future attacks. Robotics: Systems use neural policies optimized for statistical averages. When encountering novel environments, they lack a physical safety substrate, resulting in hardware executing a "software hallucination at full mechanical torque" and causing kinetic collisions. AnankeLabs is creating an entirely new category of safety by shifting away from guessing if an action is safe based on past data, and moving toward a deterministic engine built on first principles. We built KAIROS Substrate, a real-time safety physics engine that acts as an automatic brake. Instead of relying on pattern-matching, it evaluates actions before execution, instantly detecting and blocking structurally unsound actions across AI, cyber, and robotics by calculating exact mathematical breaking points. Crucially, we made auditability a structural property of the engine itself. Because KAIROS is perfectly deterministic (identical inputs produce identical outputs at ε=10⁻⁶), it automatically generates an immutable, byte-identically replayable trace of every gate decision as a side effect. This eliminates subjective incident reporting and natively satisfies strict regulatory regimes like the EU AI Act, Machinery Regulation 2023/1230, DORA, and NIS2. The spark that fired our mission was the realization that relying on statistics to secure critical infrastructure is a dead-end. Watching security teams permanently synchronize their defenses to yesterday's attack surface highlighted an unacceptable structural flaw in modern technology. We saw the same unacceptable risks in autonomous systems, where a simple distribution shift could cause heavy machinery to hallucinate and collide with its environment. We realized that true safety couldn't be bolted on as an afterthought or solved with better guesswork; it had to be deterministic and mathematical. We set out to build AnankeLabs because organizations deserve a proactive safeguard that prevents failures from unseen threats from the ground up, rather than just mitigating the damage after the fact.

Hej! Vi er Linnker - og vi gør hotelbooking overraskende enkel. Hvad? En online bookingplatform, der forbinder gæster direkte med hotellet. Hvordan? Her får du det, du ser. Ingen gebyrer, ingen mellemled, ingen støj. Den bedste pris, ét klik, hotelbooking gjort enkel. Hvorfor? Fordi en god rejse fortjener en god begyndelse, hvor hverken gæster eller hoteller bør betale prisen for et system, der tjener mere på dig end for dig.

About SwayQ The better company behind creator partnerships. SwayQ helps brands and creators work together through transparent fees, stronger trust, and better matching than the old agency model allows. Born in Copenhagen. Built for the world. SwayQ was built because the old agency model is too opaque, too expensive, and too far removed from the real partnership. Brands often pay more than they should without full clarity on fit, creators give up too much of the value they create, and both sides are asked to trust a process they cannot fully see. We built SwayQ to make the economics, the matching, and the trust clearer. We believe the economics of influence should be visible, the matching should be genuine, and both sides should see the same terms. Category over roster Matching is based on category themes and verified platform signals — not on whichever creators happen to be on an agency roster. AI-assisted matching is coming soon. Trust, not leverage Both sides see the same terms. No information asymmetry, no hidden incentives, no leverage games.

Outdoor Voyage is a platform that helps travelers discover, customize, and book adventure travel with fully verified local operators around the world. Instead of choosing rigid, pre-packaged tours, travelers can connect directly with trusted local guides, collaborate with friends, and design trips that match their interests, budget, and schedule. Outdoor Voyage was created by the team behind the award-winning adventure magazine Outdoor Journal, a group of journalists and explorers who spent years traveling the world documenting unique outdoor experiences and the people who make them possible. Through their work, they discovered that many of the best local adventure operators were difficult for travelers to find online, while travelers themselves struggled with fragmented trip planning across multiple platforms, emails, and booking systems. Outdoor Voyage was built to solve this problem. The platform brings inspiration, communication, customization, and booking into one place. Travelers can discover unique experiences, create a shared “Voyage” to organize their trip ideas, invite friends to plan together, chat directly with verified operators, customize the experience, and book with confidence. By connecting travelers directly with trusted local experts, Outdoor Voyage makes it easier to plan meaningful adventures while supporting local operators and guides who deliver authentic experiences on the ground. Our mission is to make adventure travel more accessible, collaborative, and personalized for explorers everywhere.

CircuCity is a circular e-commerce platform built to make sustainable consumption easier, more practical, and honestly, more appealing in everyday life. At its core, it is a marketplace where people can buy and sell second-hand items alongside new sustainable products, all within one ecosystem designed to extend product life cycles. But it’s not just about transactions. It’s about shifting habits. The problem we are addressing is rooted in the linear economy — the “take, make, dispose” model that still dominates global consumption patterns. Products are manufactured, purchased, used briefly, and discarded, often long before their functional life ends. This cycle drives resource depletion, carbon emissions, and growing waste streams. At the same time, consumers are becoming more aware of environmental challenges. Many want to make better choices, but the systems around them are fragmented and inconvenient. Second-hand markets exist, of course. But they are often scattered across multiple platforms, inconsistent in quality, and sometimes lacking trust. Sustainable alternatives, on the other hand, can be expensive or difficult to find. As a result, the intention to consume responsibly frequently clashes with convenience, price, and habit. People default to what is easiest — and that often means buying new, fast, and disposable. CircuCity bridges this gap. We provide a unified, user-friendly platform where circular choices are not an afterthought but the default. By integrating resale, reuse, and sustainable new products into one marketplace, we reduce friction in the decision-making process. Users can extend the life of items they no longer need, discover quality second-hand goods, and support more responsible brands — all in one place. Beyond functionality, we are building incentives into the system. Through mechanisms such as reward points, engagement challenges, and community features, CircuCity makes sustainable behavior visible and rewarding. The goal is not to lecture or guilt consumers into better habits. It is to design a system where circular consumption feels natural, economically sensible, and even motivating. Why does this matter? Because structural change requires behavioral change, and behavioral change requires better infrastructure. People cannot be expected to consistently choose sustainability if the systems around them prioritize speed and disposability. By making circular options more accessible, trustworthy, and engaging, we aim to shift consumption patterns at scale. CircuCity is not claiming to solve overconsumption overnight. But we believe that by extending product lifespans, reducing unnecessary waste, and empowering conscious consumers, we can contribute to a more regenerative economic model. In the long run, small individual decisions — when supported by the right platform — can accumulate into meaningful systemic impact. That is the space we operate in: practical sustainability, built into everyday commerce.

Spoilme er en digital platform, der forbinder behandlere og kunder inden for beauty- og behandlingsbranchen. Vi gør det nemt for kunder at finde, booke og opdage behandlinger – særligt last-minute tider og eksklusive tilbud – mens behandlere får mulighed for at øge deres synlighed, optimere deres kalender og skabe mere omsætning. Vi er en ambitiøs startup / scale-up med fokus på teknologi, AI og automatisering, og vores mål er at blive den førende platform for beauty- og behandlingsbranchen